Authors:

Archana PandeyAbhishek PrasadYoke Khin Yap

Diabetes is a growing health issue in the nation. Thus
\textit{in-situ} glucose sensors that
can monitor the glucose level in our body are in high demand.
Furthermore,
it will be exciting if the excessive blood sugar can be converted
into
usable energy, and be stored in miniature batteries for
applications. This
will be the basis for an integrated energy sensing, generation,
and storage
(SGS) system in the future. Here we report the use of
functionalized carbon
nanotubes arrays as the glucose sensors as well as fuel cells
that can
convert glucose into energy. In principle, these devices can be
integrated
to detect excessive blood glucose and then convert the glucose
into energy.
They are also inline with our efforts on miniature 3D
microbatteries using
CNTs [1]. All these devices will be the basis for future SGS
systems.
Details of these results will be discussed in the meeting.
[1] Wang et al., in 206$^{th}$ Meeting of the Electrochemical
Society,
October 3-8, Honolulu, Hawaii (2004), Symposium Q1, abstract 1492.
Y. K. Yap acknowledges supports from DARPA (DAAD17-03-C-0115), USDA
(2007-35603-17740), and the Multi-Scale Technologies Institute
(MuSTI) at
MTU.

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